Ken Follet se adentra en uno de los mayores misterios de la historia

El autor de 'Los pilares de la Tierra' recrea la construcción de Stonhenge en 'El círculo de los días'

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00:30Dr. Heather Sabir, of English Heritage, knows some of the answers.

00:38There's various theories and lots of experimental archaeology has been done,

00:43but it is a real feat of engineering, and there must have been a lot of people involved.

00:50I wanted to see exactly where these giant stones came from,

00:54so I visited Westwood with Dr. Katie Whittaker of Historic England.

01:01The sarsen stones for Stonehenge, almost all of them were being taken from Westwood.

01:06Even sarsen stone boulders that are only a mile away are not a match.

01:11Any time Stone Age people needed to cut something, whether a slice of beef or a tree trunk,

01:17they used a flint, a stone that can be sharpened.

01:22The best flint comes from underground, so they dug mines,

01:25and I visited one of those mines at Grimes Graves in Norfolk.

01:30I put on a helmet, a safety harness, and knee pads,

01:37none of which, of course, were available to the Stone Age miners.

01:41I climbed 30 feet down a ladder to the bottom of the pit.

01:46It's dark and dusty, and a lot of the time, you have to bend or even crawl.

02:00Conditions were not easy for Stone Age miners,

02:04any more than they were for coal miners in the Victorian age.

02:10The stone you see all around is chalk, but the flint is black.

02:15Sharpening a flint is called napping.

02:20It's a difficult and skilled job.

02:22And here you see the archaeologist Phil Harding showing me how it's done.

02:28The principles of flint napping remain as relevant for me

02:32as they were to the people of Stone Age.

02:35My research took me to many fascinating places,

02:39places that you too can visit.

02:42The Circle of Days is fiction,

02:43but it's built on a foundation of real historical events.

02:49the space in the Middle School of令

03:07and a half of a story.

03:08A decade of history looks like this.